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Tools to help you assess current strategies and identify possible alternative strategies for each of the five policy levers:
Setting out quality goals and regulations
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Summary of strategies for setting quality goals |
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Country examples |
Challenge 1: Building consensus on the goals Challenge 2: Aligning goals to stimulate quality provision Challenge 3: Implementation – translating goals into actions |
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Summary of strategies for designing and implementing quality standards and regulations |
Designing and implementing curriculum and standards
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Summary of strategies for designing and implementing curriculum |
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Challenge 1: Defining goals and content Challenge 2: Curriculum alignment for continuous child development Challenge 3: Dissemination and communication about the framework Challenge 4: Effective implementation Challenge 5: Systematic evaluation and assessment |
Improving qualifications, training and working conditions
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Summary of strategies for improving workforce qualifications and training |
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Challenge 1: Improving staff qualifications Challenge 2: Workforce supply Challenge 3: Workforce retention Challenge 4: Workforce development Challenge 5: Private provision |
Engaging families and community
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Summary of strategies for engaging families |
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Challenge 1: Lack of awareness and motivation Challenge 2: Communication and outreach Challenge 3: Time constraints Challenge 4: Increasing inequity |
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Summary of strategies for engaging communities |
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Challenge 1: Lack of awareness and motivation Challenge 2: Communication and outreach Challenge 3: Dysfunctional communities Challenge 4: Co-operation with other services and other levels of education |
Advancing data collection, research and monitoring
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Summary of strategies for data collection and monitoring |
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Challenge 1:Lack of data on demand and supply of ECEC places Challenge 2: Lack of data on workforce quality and working conditions Challenge 3: Lack of data on financing and costs Challenge 4: Lack of data on child development Challenge 5: Lack of data and information on the quality of ECEC services Challenge 6: Lack of feedback cycles |
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Summary of strategies for research |
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Challenge 1: Need for more evidence on the effects of ECEC and cost-benefit analysis Challenge 2: Under-researched areas or areas with newly growing interest Challenge 3: Lack of dissemination |
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